Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
MONTANA MATTERS.

The Manitoba road is expected to reach
Great Falls by September LIST.
Town lots in Wickes have taken q boom
and are selling at high figures.
In game OF stud poker at Benton last
week there was one pot OF $2,2OO.
The Helena bicyclists have organized the
Rocky Mountain Wheelmen's Club.
Missoula is clanoring for a big hotel as
On absolute essential to it's prosperity.
The Bitter Root railroad will open to
commerce. another fine timbered section.
The Odd Fellows talk of erecting a fine
t~wo-story brick building in MissouIa this
summer.
Livingston contemplates organizing a
military company, which will be the eighth
in Montana.
1t is reported that Judge McLeary vii!
resign Immediately after the July term OF
the Supreme Court.
Gopher the Treasury" is the war cry
heard from every valley and hillside oil Gal
Min County.-Herald.
At Elkhorn a few days ago John Hazel
De shot James Spraggin through the arm
Vile in a row with him.
Helena's big town clock, which is to &C.
aSpy a position on the tower OF the new
"urt House, has arrived.
ltis reported hat a vein OF good coai
mas been discovered in a creek bed o
Twelve miles from Elkhorn.
E1-Judge Wade has entered into partner
snip with a leading legal firm OF Helena.
and its name is now Wade, TOOle q wal
lace.
The second trial OF A. 7. Owens OF Bill
,Taps, Tor employing women in place where
Inquor was sold, resulted in his conviction.
ne Was fined 500 and costs.
John Frost a adjudged insane by Judge
.%asSdluness at Billings last Saturday n
sRen to the Insane Asylum at warm
'plngs on Monday by Sheriff Harris.
The Missoula Times thinks the Legisla.
,u1e made a mistake in fixing the t OF
Aroor day, and that it should have been
''east three weeks earlier.
anaconda seems to be the objective point
d no less than three railroads-the Union
acme, the Northern Pacific on a track OF
".own, and the Montana Central.
Two companies OF cavalry and OF
,Idhtry have been ordered from Fort As.
SS"aoolne to a summer encampment in the
dams.
ohe OF the results of Judge Bach's first
wh OF court in Fergus county, just ended,
t Is 10 send two Indian horse thieves to
othp enitentiary, one for five years and the
''uer Tor seven.
ta non. &c. Waters has gone to the Ma.
,y naai fark to look over hotels and make
N,ns arrangement needed to fit up and
tor ~s Them in thorough order, prepara-
=. ior opening next month.
st,nme Meagher Guards, OF Helena, forty
dav Any were mustered into service on Mon.
srno ngnt BY Colonel Sullivan, OF the Gov.
ths mnHstaff, and held their first drill under
p humane OF Captain Ross Deegan.
HONS l"r furnishing the Helena Court
ire sc e. were opened Monday. They range
ieacbSs5i to $25, 900 No decision was
esyo 1t ~ out Z. H. Andrews & Co., Of Chi
The Hs sne lowest bidders, are, according to
Tnerald, likely to receive the contract.
Sortbssesll over the stage line connecting the
head facific at Ravalli with the Flat
TIA co lake steamer is increasing. An ex-
pie rea nshsyance is frequently put IN. Peo-
and Mon,1hs Ravalli Wednesday, Friday
With the sutay mornings make connection
Rstn Stages and boat.
suNN1 i .h. Rom the municipal election at
'A'N that that city pollsd 1864